UK Vs. US: Battle of the belly laughs
While Richard Curtis’ comedy The Boat That Rocked sails onto DVD, Judd Apatow’s aptly titled Funny People is already making waves on the big screen. Curtis’ comedy set in the swingin’ sixties on a pirate (radio) ship, is an ocean apart from Apatow’s off-beat storyline of a narcissistic comedian diagnosed with a rare blood disease. Two very different directors with two very different approaches to comedy, which can only mean one thing and one thing alone: A...
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